I recently installed Everything on a new laptop. When I start the pgm, it lists every file on my machine including files of the OS which are normally hidden. How can I hide all of them? Any advice will be most helpful.

Stash wrote:Window files are gone but an endless list of files, e.g., "1031" located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\...

They do no harm ...

Another route would be to start Everything with an empty result list. As soon as you start typing in the search bar, only matching results will be shown.This can be done through Menu:Tools > Options > Results : Enable Hide results when search is empty